Congress Opens MKUltra Files, Asks About Jack Ruby
On June 30, the U.S. House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets convened a landmark hearing titled “Mind Control and Accountability: Uncovering the Truth of the CIA’s MKULTRA Project,” chaired by Florida Republican Anna Paulina Luna. Testimony emerged connecting the Central Intelligence Agency’s most notorious secret program to the Kennedy assassination — specifically to Jack Ruby, the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald before he could testify.
MKUltra was a CIA program running from 1953 to 1973 that studied mind control and the alteration of human behavior, using unwitting subjects who were given high doses of psychoactive drugs and subjected to forms of psychological torture such as electroshock, sensory deprivation, and isolation. The program involved more than 80 institutions including schools, hospitals, prisons, and pharmaceutical companies. The CIA destroyed all MKUltra operational files in 1973, but the discovery of surviving financial files sparked a round of Senate hearings in 1977.
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